22 July 2015.
Deepak Nayyar’s Catch Up describes the role of 14 developing economies in transforming the structure of world economic output. If the trends of the past half-century persist, the twenty-first-century distribution of power will be multipolar.

09 June 2015.
By Alexander Neill, Shangri-La Dialogue Senior Fellow for Asia-Pacific Security
Recently, an essay published in the Wall Street Journal written by David Shambaugh, professor of George Washington University, has created reverberations within the China-watching community.
Citing five indicators of current political and socio-economic decline in China, Shambaugh has concluded that the rule of the Communist Party of China (CPC) is nearing conclusion and China's political future is at crossroads.
His conclusions have...

18 May 2015.
By Sanjaya Baru, Director for Geo-economics and Strategy
If China has its One Belt-One Road (Obor), India could have its One Road-One Rail (Oror). Last month India took an important step aimed at building the ‘One Rail’ link from the Iranian port of Chabahar going inland towards Afghanistan and Central Asia. Earlier this week on Monday, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India and Nepal (BBIN) signed a motor vehicles pact that could, in the...

The AIIB is expected to be operational by the end of 2015, with initial capital of $50–100bn, mostly provided by China. It will allow Beijing to define new norms for the global economic governance regime and have a greater say in it.

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